This classic attempt to describe the behaviors of an individual who finds that the quality of goods he buys, the company he works for, or the politics of the state he lives in is going down. Hirschman`s model of choosing among "exit", "voice", and "loyalty" seems to be quite universal.

This book is based on the Henry Wendt Lecture by the well known economist Deepak Lal, delivered at the American Enterprise Institute in 2002, In Defense of Empires. The book is addressed to a broad audience.

This collective monograph, based on several surveys, studies the new social structure of Russia by income and living standards. It analyzes qualitative and quantitative differences (borders) among these three groups, their social and psychological self-perception, spiritual and political values, preferences and choices in leisure time, education, religion, etc.

This collection of articles by experts of the World Bank from various countries, including Russia, covers three main topics: how mass media help to develop markets; how the media industry supports itself; what the media say about themselves.

This collection of 896 abstracts is the first part of the research project Economic and Political Reform in the USSR. The abstracts were written by a group of scholars from the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences in Moscow (INION).

This book is about the socio-cultural revolution which is taking place in the world, about the new class of actors who design and bring a new model of the world to life: ambitious corporations, invisible colleges, intellectual factories and clubs, communities and commissions.

This collective monograph describes methodological approaches, priorities and ways of realization of long-term social and economic development of the regions of the Russian Federation. The authors, led by academician Aleksandr Granberg, take the stand that strategic planning in the Russian Federation should be carried out both "from above" and "from below" for the strengthening of interactions of federal center and regions.

This monograph studies the attitude of the people of the Russian Federation towards private property and business. It is based on surveys of 2004-2005. Contents: Property in the life of the people of Russia: fantasies and reality; The Economic elite in the public opinion of Russians; Social responsibility of big Russian business in the eyes of the population and of the business elite.

Contents: A. Oleinik. Taxonomy of power relations; V. Ledyaev. Domination, power and authority in Russia: Basic characteristics; O. Gaman-Golutvina. Changing role of the state and state bureaucracy in the context of public administration reforms: Russian and foreign experience; P.

This is a collection of articles of Ayn Rand (1905-1982), an American writer of Russian descent. It also includes articles by her students and followers: Nathaniel Brandon, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen.

A fascinating look at why millions of consumers are "trading up" to premium goods, and how companies can profit from this phenomenon. Middle-market consumers have more discretionary income than ever before and are willing to pay extra for "new luxury" goods and services-items that deliver higher quality, technical advantages, and superior performance to conventional products.

This is the first Russian translation of the collection of articles by Ayn Rand united by one topic: defense of the concept of "reasonable egoism" as the ethical platform of a free capitalist society. Also included are two articles by Nathaniel Branden on the same subject.

As he has done in dozens of countries around the world in the midst of economic crises, Jeffrey Sachs turns his unique diagnostic skills to what ails the American economy. He finds that both political parties—and many leading economists—have missed the big picture, offering shortsighted solutions such as stimulus spending or tax cuts to address complex economic problems that require deeper solutions.

This monograph deals with regional relations between Russia and China along their mutual border. It contains results of comparative analysis of strategies and programs of economic and social development on both sides of the border and direct economic ties and interactions.

The results of the reform in the housing economy in Russia and its regularities are presented in this book. Analysis of the privatization of state housing and its transfer for maintenance to private management companies is made.

This book presents simple models of the major alternative types of political regimes, estimates of the parameters of these models, and quantitative estimates of the fiscal choices and economic outcomes of these regimes.

This book was prepared by the US Advisory Board, Moscow State University of Commerce and the Russian Federation Committee for Trade. It is intended to help their Russian colleagues to develop a course on management.

Most businesses still operate according to a world view that hasn`t changed since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Then, natural resources were abundant and labor was the limiting factor of production.

With the British Industrial Revolution, part of the world’s population started to experience extraordinary economic growth—leading to enormous gaps in wealth and living standards between the industrialized West and the rest of the world.

The financial crisis has been blamed on reckless bankers, irrational exuberance, government support of mortgages for the poor, financial deregulation, and expansionary monetary policy. Specialists in banking, however, tell a story with less emotional resonance, but a better correspondence to the evidence: the crisis was sparked by the international regulatory accords on bank capital levels, the Basel Accords.

In an engaging and wide-ranging argument, Mulgan digs into the history of capitalism across the world to show its animating ideas, its utopias and dystopias, as well as its contradictions and possibilities.

Why do some economies do better than others? How does society encourage the kind of market economy that generates continually increasing incomes? How do particular styles of government affect economic performance? World-renowned economist Mancur Olson tackles these questions and others in what will surely be regarded as his magnum opus.

One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith`s proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand.

This monograph contains several surveys conducted in the late 1990`s and early 2000`s in Russia. These surveys enable the author to identify different social groups, types of small business, to analyze labor relations in small firms, to characterize the factors of the effects of the crisis of 1998 and the response of small firms during the crisis period of 1998-1999, and to describe other specifics of small business determined by social, cultural, and economic preconditions of its development in post-soviet Russia.

This important book offers a comprehensive defense of classical liberalism against contemporary challenges. It sets out an analytical framework of `robust political economy` that explores the economic and political problems that arise from the phenomena of imperfect knowledge and imperfect incentives.

This book approaches the causes of systemic failures ranging from promoting Third World development to implementing systemic change in the Former Soviet Union and dealing with global financial crises. It is unique in painting a broad panorama of how modern social science has bought increasing theoretical sophistication at the price of losing touch with vital features of cultural and historical specificity.